"The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
The Open Counselling team
We are an agency of qualified and professional counsellors and therapists who uphold clear values in counselling. Our therapists help adults and young people overcome a vast spectrum of challenges.
The counsellor you work with is guided by both ethical and moral standards to keep your best interests and needs at the forefront of the counselling process.
All the counsellors in our directory are personally committed to and embrace our core values, giving you the confidence to know the value system and approach of the counsellor you are seeing before you ever make an appointment.
We believe therapy is a process to aid the individual in the self-discovery of purposeful and meaningful life decisions. By realizing for oneself, with the help and guidance of a counsellor, individuals are more likely to own the positive change that occurs in their life and continue moving forward with this long after counseling has concluded.
Contact an Open Counselling counsellor now to discuss the counselling process and your specific needs.
Higher Professional Diploma In Counselling & Psychotherapy, accredited by the BACP-Distinction
Integrative Counselling Skills & Theory, accredited by the CPCAB
Counselling Children & Young People
All Open Counselling counsellers attend regular supervision and training courses in order to enhance thier personal and professional development.
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Open Counselling is a highly respected and busy counselling Agency in Hertfordshire. We provide affordable person-centred / integrative counselling and psychotherapy for those people in need from Watford / St Albans and its surrounding areas.
We abide by the Code and Ethics of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Open Counselling is open Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 9.00pm. Alternatively there is a 24 hour answering machine and we will call you back as soon as possible.
Whatever is worrying you or affecting your life, please feel to call us and have an initial conversation with our Director. Our qualified and experienced counsellors are here to help you.
The Open Counselling Approach
Counselling provides a safe, confidential and supportive environment for clients to work through their pain, confusion, or difficulties whether these be short term or longer term. It is about finding meaningful alternatives to present unsatisfactory ways of thinking, feeling and behaviour that are holding you back or causing you distress. It is about finding our own ‘inner gold’ our precious inner resources that can become mislaid or buried when we have had difficult past experiences or are going through a traumatic period.
Open Counselling uses a predominantly ‘Person Centred / Humanistic approach, with the incorporation of other key modalities. This approach to counselling is described as ‘Integrative’. That means that we are able to draw on and use a wide range of relevant theories and techniques within a structured model of counselling. The main theoretical approaches we work with are:
Open Counselling are happy to work with clients in the way that they feel most comfortable with.
Our counsellors always adapt the counselling and therapeutic techniques to the client’s needs rather than fitting the client to an ‘off the shelf’ approach. We rely on our past experiences and powerful intuition when working with clients.
